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Close Reading ‘Civil Disobedience’

Close Reading ‘Civil Disobedience’. 11 AP. Standard: Key Ideas and Craft and Structure. RI.11-12.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.

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Close Reading ‘Civil Disobedience’

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  1. Close Reading ‘Civil Disobedience’ 11 AP

  2. Standard: Key Ideas and Craft and Structure • RI.11-12.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says. • RI.11-12.6: Determine an author’s purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text. • W.11-12.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research

  3. Agenda Finish and assess formal discussion

  4. "Civil Disobedience" originated as a Concord Lyceum lecture delivered on January 26, 1848. It was published as "Resistance to Civil Government," in May of 1849, in Elizabeth Peabody's Aesthetic Papers, a short-lived periodical that never managed a second issue. The modern title comes from A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, an 1866 collection of Thoreau's work. It's not known if Thoreau ever used the term "civil disobedience.“ 1999-2009 Richard Lenat

  5. "Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practise in himself. ... He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity. His essay has, therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable." –Mohandas Gandhi1999-2009 Richard Lenat

  6. "... when, in the mid-1950's, the United States Information Service included as a standard book in all their libraries around the world a textbook ... which reprinted Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience,' the late Senator Joseph McCarthy succeeded in having that book removed from the shelves — specifically because of the Thoreau essay." - Walter Harding, in The Variorum Civil Disobedience • 1999-2009 Richard Lenat

  7. "I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest." – Martin Luther King, Jr. Autobiography • 1999-2009 Richard Lenat

  8. "Civil Disobedience" has more history than many suspect. In the 1940's it was read by the Danish resistance, in the 1950's it was cherished by those who opposed McCarthyism, in the 1960's it was influential in the struggle against South African apartheid, and in the 1970's it was discovered by a new generation of anti-war activists.

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